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the world. what we're trying to understand, as you just reported, is how do those issues that we understand from talking to people who knew his mother tie in with these other things we're learning about violent video games and the norwegian killings, to lead to sandy hook on that day? >> so the "hartford courant" says they found an article about breivik in lanza's room. >> if there's an indication he was trying to copycat in terms of the death toll, that's his motivation. there's nothing -- no similarities in terms of the motivation to breivik, that's for sure. his was purely a political act. he was, whether you think he's insane or not, he went after what he saw as a pro-government gathering on that ilan of --
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island of victoria, the youth of the country getting together. he hated the government. pe thought the government was too pro-immigration. that's what he was about. lanza trying to get on the coat tails of that just seems sick. >> what do we know about breivik? lanza was troubled, socially isolated. there were guns in the house. there's a question about why that was the case? but did he have social problems, developmental problems. do we know anything about the other shooter? >> breivik had some social problems as well. he was a bit of a loner in many ways, spent a lot of time in chat rooms, dealing with like-minded people. but he wasn't crazy. he did not want to be seen as crazy. it was so important to him in court to be seen as absolutely sane and for what he did to be taken for what he said it was, a purely political anti-government, anti-immigration. a racist act.
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to see any similarities between the two cases is really stretching it. >> it was a chilling thing to cover. i was there for four or five days covering the island. covering the people of norway, this safe, beautiful place was just crushed by what happened. this is not a place that's used to any kind of gun violence, let alone something on the scale of what happened there. i've never seen a country more shaken by something than i saw in norway. i've been to a lot of places that are more used to that kind of violence. not norway. it was a horrible, horrible experience. >> certainly people in sandy hook could imagine that would happen in their own community as well. >> right. there is a war going on, the police chief could be the latest victim. a live report after this, that's on the border of texas. if you have yet to master the quiet sneeze... you stash tissues like a squirrel stashes nuts...
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is missing. it's across the border from laredo, texas. local media reporting the police chiefs two brothers were discovered murdered over the weekend. >> and one of them was a federal prosecutor. want to bring in nick valencia to talk about this. this is extraordinary when you think about it and take a look at the pictures. very disturbing that the level of violence and danger associated with this. >> it is very dangerous there. in fact, the state prosecutors were so reluctant to confirm information to us because of the safety dangers there. i spoke to the state prosecutor's office and they said that they didn't want to -- were reluctant to confirm it but eventually did confirm the information. in 2005, police chief takes a job, found dead the first day on the job. fast forward, a retired army chief takes the job, he's found
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killed. now this. the drug cartel has been in this bloody part of mexico, bodies found hanging from the bridge recently. the texas department of safety as early as 201 1 asked u.s. citizens not to travel to this area because of safety concerns. >> is anyone safe there. >> the people who live there they think are. >> the cartels are taking over some areas. it is a sense of pride and civic pride for the local police chiefs to take the jobs saying to these cartels you may run certain parts of mexico but not my part of town. >> is anybody closer to finding out who these guys are, capturing them, bringing them to justice. >> mexico, they have a
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prosecution problem. 90% of crimes don't get solved in mexico. recently we had a case in acapulco where six spanish tourists were raped by local people there. this is no closer to finding out who did this yet. even a reluctance on the part of local authorities to even confirm that this happened. >> wow. all right, nick, thank you. appreciate it. a little kid in the crosshairs. this is a photo posted on israeli soldier's instagram account. it is sparking outrage in the holy land. i'll take you live to jerusalem, after this. oil changes at meineke are always a great deal.
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international where we take you around the world in 60 minutes. >> we'll take you to israel right now because there's a photograph posted on an israeli soldier's instagram account that is sparking outrage. >> this is possibly a child's head positioned in the center of a sniper's crosshairs. sara sidner is in jerusalem. tell us what this soldier -- what was he trying to do? >> the instagram picture depicting what appears to be a child or a very young adult at the least, through the crosshairs of a sniper's rifle was actually uploaded by an israeli soldier named moore astrovski. the military says the picture in question does not coincide with its values and code of ethics, that the issue is being investigated and will be dealt with accordingly. this has ruffled a lot of people's feathers because it
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really sheds a light on certain things, makes people very uncomfortable. a story that turns out to be bigger internationally than it has been locally so far. there's not been a huge amount of coverage here on the story. comparatively. but there has been a reaction. people on social websites in the the streets, calling it shameful and intensative and disturbing. it's been condemned in many circles both socially and officially, suzanne. >> the obvious question is, this is a palestinian child, the whole idea somebody going for a little palestinian boy? >> well, the idea is, according to the military, one that they do not want to talk about, because it's just not what a soldier is supposeded to do. yes, the idea is that this is looking -- a gun is pointing toward the head of a palestinian, a child or an adult. i spoke with an executive member of the palestinian liberation
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organization and he said, i'm quoting here, it's a real pity that palestinians mean so little to israeli soldiers that they think palestinian lives are just for their amusement. he told me that he thinks that this is more proof that palestinians need international protection and international law should be applied in these cases, suzanne. the israeli military saying this is not their policy. this is one person that did something incorrect. suzanne. >> obviously in this day of instagram we all get to see it. >> social media. >> exactly. do us a favor, let us know the outcome of that investigation. i'll be curious to see what happens. >> sure. >> sara sidner there. the problem with israel's government, they don't stop there. the prime minister in hot water for budgeting $2,700 for ice cream. all of this coming at a time when israel, like a lot of other countries, struggling with budget cuts. >> all right. how much ice cream are we talking about? >> 2,700 bucks, really.
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>> that's a lot of ice cream. yes, i guess they were saying that this is something that his favorite flavor pistachipistach >> i thought it was french vanilla. this is benjamin netanyahu on your screen, obviously. signed a contract to supply his house, not the office, of 30 pounds of ice cream a month. >> the government is releasing a statement, saying that once the prime minister actually learned about this agreement he decided to cancel it. >> no kidding. >> the ice cream is not coming. >> no kidding. oops. >> i think they posted something on facebook, too, where they had a spoof where he had a big huge ice cream cone in his hand. >> that's a lot. >> i'm surprised he's not really big from all that ice cream. >> kids and friends and all of that coming around every month. 2,700? >> are you a big ice cream guy. >> i can be, yes. we'll take a break, we'll be right back. >> vanilla.
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as if they needed it. tensions reigniting over americans adopting russian children. we're talking about a 3-year-old child adopted from russia who died in the care of his adoptive american parents. >> the russian government says the boy was clearly abused.
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david mattingly joins us with the story. this is a case where obviously there's a long history of problems and tensions between the united states and russia, as you mentioned it's the third largest in terms of number of adoptions here. now you've got this. can only make this worse. >> it has already made it worse. they have a ban that has been passed and ready to go into effect. and already that was just for nationwide banning u.s. adoptions in russia. but already the region where this little boy and his brother are from, the governor there in russia has said we're going to stop adoptions right now because of this case. they're asking that the young boy's brother, his younger brother who is also in the home, also be sent back to russia. >> what happened to this little boy? >> that's the thing, we just don't know. and the state department is cautioning everyone to wait for the investigation to go through so we can get to the bottom of this, wait for the autopsy results to come out. those could be weeks, possibly even a month away before we find out what we do know, this
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3-year-old boy, turned 3 in january, he was nonresponsive in the home, his mother called 911, taken to the hospital and he was dead. because of the situation in texas they're required to investigate infant deaths like this, toddler deaths like this. and they're still having to get to the bottom of it. the coroner is looking at it, doing the investigation. they just don't know. >> you said to me before on cnn international, there's been 19 other deaths of russian kids. >> since the '90s. >> since the '90s. >> if that weren't bad enough to inflame the tejss already there about the sensitivity of u.s. adoptions in russia. in 2010 we had an american mother shipping her son that she adopted in the u.s. back because he had behavioral problems. >> that's how that all started. i want to the show our viewers,
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the state department estimating that americans adopted close to 1,000 russian children last year. hundreds of adoptions pending in the russian ban on u.s. adoptions have left a lot of americans quite frankly in limbo. a couple weeks ago, talked to one couple in that exact situation. here's what they describe. >> we're probably smack dab in the middle of the process right now. we made a trip last month to visit little anastasia. we met her. she was informed we were her parents. we told her we're going to come back for her and she said she'd wait for us. we're in limbo. >> we pray, we cry, we get cranky. my child is half a world away and i feel like any mom wouldn't be able to get through that very easily. >> david, how are they getting through that? you've got a lot of folks in limbo and then others who are not able to adopt now? >> these are all parents who were already in the slow-moving process, private or otherwise. and they were trying to make
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their way through these systems. there's all sorts of pitfalls they could run into, a lot of frustrations. then you have the ban imposed on top of it. it's interrupting and casting into doubt where they stand with their individual agencies. so it's really a source of fear and frustration. >> you have the whole geopolitics as well that's going on anyway. russia and america butting heads politically which doesn't help any of this. >> david mattingly following this for us. >> he's the most famous graffiti artist in the world. now his work by banski has gone missing in uranium but showed up in florida. we're tracking it down after a quit break. the boys used double miles from their capital one venture card to fly home for the big family reunion.
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all right. street art, bansky, probably the best known, renowned street artist in the world. >> yes, some say graffiti. i don't. >> graffiti, street artist. >> it's incredible when you take a look at the work there. you have a situation here where it's a mysterious british guy whose work gets snatched up by art collectors around the world. you can see his work in the screen behind us. one of the pieces has made its way to miami. people stirred up in two continents. here's why. >> when is graffiti art? if you live in london you've probably heard of the graffiti artist bansky. there used to be one right here until someone took not only the graffiti but a huge chunk of wall. it is still visible on google
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street view, complete with a couple of tourists having their photo taken beside it but if you want to see it in real life you'll have to spend an awful lot of monday. john zarrella in miami takes up the story. >> thanks, dan. here's the connection to miami. on a website, the bansky mural turned up for an auction of street art on february 23rd. i had the chance to talk exclusively with the man who runs the auction house and he told me about how they got the rights to auction the bansky. >> we decided to present a street art auction in miami because we think it's the right place to protect and poe mote street artwork. there's a lot of artists year-round buying this kind of art. we thought it was the right place. we contacted our contacts able to have works of that kind. we offered then some work of art. this work of art comes that way. >> understandably, lots of
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people in the neighborhood are upset that the bansky disappeared. acoring to franklin tut, just because this was on a wall, it doesn't belong to the public. >> the work owned to the public because it's on the street, because like other things, some things are not owned by the public. some things are private. the wall, it's private wall. you know? >> so you buy the building whoever owns the building. >> the owner of the building. the right thing is to have the owner of the building. >> they are talking with their attorneys about whether to keep the bansky in the february 23rd auction. at this point they don't have plans to remove it. in fact, it is such a big deal item, that the bansky is actually on the cover of the auction magazine. john zarrella, cnn, miami. >> they took it off the wall? >> i know.
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remake of "the wizard of oz." he's set to inherit millions from dad's estate, his lawyers say he is determined to make his own money. because he got the job through what, applying and going through an interview? >> michael jackson's son. >> please. >> that's right. so much for the journalism degree. >> nothing like a leg up. >> it will be interesting to see him. it's a fun job. good for him. >> why not. >> he wants to be part of the action. >> that will do it for me. thanks for watching "newsroom international." you are far from done. >> i have one more hour. >> i'll see you tomorrow. she went online to find love but instead she became a victim. then he was obsessed with mass murders, newtown, connecticut shooter adam lanza's possible motive now. also coming up, he's a convicted murderer set to be
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executed tonight. but his mental state is being questioned. will a judge decide to reverse his fate? we'll take a look at the warren hill case. this is "cnn newsroom," i'm suzanne malveaux. just in to cnn now, general john allen is retiring, citing health issues within the family. barbara starr, explain to us why is he leaving and, of course, there is a shadow -- a great deal of service, very respected man but a shadow in the last part of his career. >> well, there is, suzanne. john allen, united states marine corps, four star general, the recently departed commander of the war in afghanistan rotating out of that job, he was supposed to go to become the military chief at nato headquarters. but that was put on hold when the inspector general of the pentagon began investigating
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what was called potentially inappropriate e-mails that he wrote to a woman named jill kelly, the woman caught up in the paula broadwell/david petraeus scandal late last year. jill kelly called an fbi friend saying she was receiving disturbing e-mails. turned out to be from paula broadwell. but at the same time, general allen apparently writing jill kelly also potentially inappropriate e-mails. it must be said, allen was cleared of any wrongdoing in that matter several weeks ago. but he came back to the united states and it was very well known inside military circles he was thinking about retiring from the service after all of this. suzanne? >> barbara, do we know if that, in fact, is accurate? do we know if there's a health issue he has to deal with within his family, that that's the reason why he's leaving? >> i'm looking at the white house statement just like you. the president saying a short time ago he is accepting general allen's request for retirement
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so he can, quote, address health issues within his family. one can only assume that it's true. but several days ago, defense secretary leon panetta also told reporters that he counselled allen to take his time on whether or not he wanted to pursue the nato job after being cleared of these allegations. he was cleared of them. it would be his decision if he wanted to pursue the job. panetta saying he told allen to get some rest after being in afghanistan so long, consult with his family, decide what he wanted to do to take some time. that was the advice from the defense secretary, take your time. so i don't think at the end of the day any of this is a huge surprise inside the u.s. military. we don't know what the health issues are and certainly, of course, i think everyone wishes his family the best of health. >> real quickly, barbara here, had a chance to meet him, to speak with him in afghanistan on the anniversary of 9/11 a couple
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years ago. you've had many conversations with the general. what do you think will be his legacy moving forward? >> well, there is a real question to be addressed on that point, suzanne. did in fact he turn around the lack of progress in afghanistan? under mcchrystal and petraeus you had a counterinsurgency strategy which proved to be violent and difficult to execute. under general allen you began to see the end game take shape. the end game being that the u.s. would depart by the end of 2014 and before that thaad put everything they had into training and advising afghan forces. his legacy will be whether that is successful. the end game is upon us, less than two years from now. will the allen plan be the one that really works? there may not be enough time to switch gears even yet again. >> do we know who will be behind him as the nominee for nato? >> that's now the official
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guessing game in all 17 miles of pentagon corridors. which four star, the bench is not all that deep at this point. i think a lot of people are already speculating they could reach down into the three star ranks, promote somebody into the job. but it's sort of like, and no disrespect, it's the enclave to select a new pope in rome, no disrespect but it's the big guessing game, who's next. >> appreciate it, barbara starr. a man is accused of raining a woman he met on a dating site, christian dl christi christi christianmingle.com. miguel, tell us about the suspect, sean banks pleading not guilty today, out on bond? >> he is out on bond. he bonded out in the past wiig. he was arrested last week and mr. banks was difficult for police to capture because he
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went by so many different profile names. they're not sure if he was on other websites on christianmingle.com. in the particular care we're talking about now he went by the name rarity. the only name this woman knew him by. he went by ryland, ryland harbaugh and ryan. the way this particular case played out, in november, a woman having met him on christianmingle.com, invited him to her home. that is a no-no in the meeting online world. she felt comfortable enough to invite him to her home. and then he became aggressive and he was charged with not only rain but burglary as well. and he is out on $500,000 bond at the moment. suzanne? >> explain to us how this works. do they have any ways of protecting folks who go on this particular dating site? >> the website says they take all precautions that they
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possibly can. they completely, working with police, police do say that christian mingle and sparks network that owns christian mingle, sparks is the company that owns several religious-based dating websites, that they have cooperated with police, that they provided information, police say, assisted them in the warrants and affidavits and the website itself says it does everything it can from looking at individual profiles manually to their own sort of search engines to try to figure out if somebody is cheating the system. suzanne? >> all right. thank you. appreciate it. a georgia death row inmate set to be executed at 7:00 p.m. eastern tonight. warren hill killed his girlfriend and years later also killed a fellow inmate. no one is actually disputing the crimes but there is something else in the case that is raising serious concerns. while on death row, doctors have now determined that warren hill is mentally disabled. he has an iq of 70. victor blackwell joins us.
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victor, tell bus what his fate is and are people trying to save him because of his disability? >> there are a lot of people trying to save him. this comes down to the threshold and state's interpretations of the u.s. supreme court's decision. let's start with the time line, though. in '86 he killed his girlfriend and was sentenced to life in prison to are that. in 1990, he then killed a if they low inmate and was sentenced to death. now, the issue here starts with the question of mental retardation, because that was brought up by his attorneys during the appeals process. the word retardation i know offends a lot of people. that's the legal term. their word, not mine. i want to make sure people know why i'm using it. the state had three doctors evaluate hill. they said at that time he was not mentally retarded. since then, those three doctors have come back and said they had rush jobs initially, they didn't have all the information they needed. based on what they have now, indeed hill is mentally
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retarded. now, the u.s. supreme court has deemed it unconstitutional for capital punishment against a person who has mental disability. a judge in georgia even agrees saying that based on a preponderance of the evidence that he is mentally retarded. >> is there any hope for him? >> the question comes down now to the parole and the pardons board. and this is what his attorney said about that. and this group having the last option, the last group to save him from the death penalty tonight at 7:00 eastern. >> there's now no dispute amongst any of the experts that have evaluated mr. hill over the last 22 years that he is mentally retarded. so i am hoping that the board of pardons and paroles will reconsider its denial last year of clemency. we have filed a court action in state court to ask a judge to reconsider the mental retardation claim based on this new information. >> so now, in georgia, it's
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important to say this, although the u.s. supreme court has made this decision, georgia has the higher standard. it's not based on the preponderance of evidence. it's beyond a reasonable doubt. that no reasonable juryist would think this man his full mental capabilities. >> it is possible that they -- somebody could save him before 7:00 tonight? >> yes. >> this process is still continuing. there is still hope? >> the supreme court has refused to hear it but the parole and pardon board can grant clemency and give him life in prison which he was sentenced to. >> they can make that decision up until 7:00. >> we made the call, they said they're reviewing it and we'll find out if they make that soon. >> let us know. >> right. the lapd giving an update on the christopher dorner investigation. you remember dorner is the ex-cop who went on a shooting rampage two weeks ago after posting a manifesto that targeted the lapd. he killed four people, the police chief says that manifesto raises a lot of issues, a lot of questions.
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his department is looking into a lot of them. they'll issue their findings once the review is done. the massive manhattan for dount ended last week after a shootout and fire at a california cabin. that's where he was holed up. autopsy results show he died from a sing gunshot wound to the head. communication completely restored between nasa's ground control and the international space station. this morning, all communications were lost during a software upgrade. just this last hour i talked to nasa spokesman josh byerly who told us about the mood on the ground control during the outage. >> you know, it's not a panicked mood that takes over mission control. these guys have procedures to do this and the crew has procedures. they just talk to each other when they get the chance and make sure the crew is aware of what to do and they work through the steps to get it back up and
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susan candiotti is joining us now. you've been looking into the comparisons, the reports. what do we know? >> hi, suzanne. as connecticut police put it, we're dealing with a shooter who is dead and now we're trying to rebuild history, rebuilding history and trying to answer why did he do it? investigators have found evidence that sandy hook elementary school shooter adam lanza was, quote, obsessed with other mass murders. a source with knowledge of the investigation tells cnn. cbs news first reported monday adam lanza may have been trying to outdo another mass murderer, anders breivik in norway. he killed 77 people in 2011. >> is there any information that points toward this connection with breivik. >> the "hartford courant" reports that news stories in the 2011 norway massacre were discovered in lanza's bedroom.
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remember, lanza shot his mother last december, then went to sandy hook elementary and systematically killed 20 children and 6 teachers before taking his own life when police arrived. lanza reportedly chose the school because of the large number of potential targets in a closed-in setting. cbs quotes sources who say the shooter may also have been in essence, satisfying a violent video game fantasy. suzanne? >> do we know what the connecticut police are saying about this? >> a spokesman for the state police called the cbs report speculative because no single motive has been confirmed yet. and because they're not naming any sources. however, the spokesman also told me nothing, including norway, has been ruled out. a final report on their investigation is expected by this summer. suzanne? >> we'll be looking for that. as always, appreciate it. we now know what caused that engine room fire on the carnival
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we n wh the cause of the fire that crippled the carnival cruise ship "triumph." the coast guard says it started with a leak in a fuel and oil line running from one of the ship's eninjz .leaking oil hit a hot surface starting the fire. the triumph was on a four-day cruise from galveston, texas, to mexico. more than 4,200 people were stranded until the ships would towed to mobile, alabama. that was on thursday, you might recall. the passengers able to get off the ship on friday. the ordeal went from bad to worse. you had no electricity or running water. they want compensation, three federal lawsuits now being filed against the cruise ship. yes? >> yes. three lawsuits now. i mean, whether these lawsuits will be successful, suzanne, that is the million dollar question. can these passengers prove that the fire in the engine room was caused by improper maintenance? can they prove they've been
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emotionally or physically harmed by this. carnival shall not be liable to the passenger for damages for emotional distress, mental suffering except when such damages were caused by the negligence of carnival and resulted in physical injury or risk of physical injury. let me just translate that for you. passengers have to prove two things here to file a lawsuit. first of all, negligence by carnival. secondly they have to prove that carnival's negligence directly resulted to exposure to physical illness. raw sewage is not pleasant but passengers will have a hard time proving they were in serious dang danger. he says that carnival's response to the fire may have been negligent. either way, suzanne, a lawsuit is not going to be easy. this contract says that passengers must file suit in miami, not convenient for everyone, within one year and they have no right to a
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class-action lawsuit. the whole point is to make it difficult to sue. >> they have to go to miami in order to sue, is that right? >> yes, miami. >> how does that compare to folks who fly all the time and you know, you're stuck on a plane? what are your rights compared to those who are flying if you're stuck on a ship? >> firstly, airline passengers have a little of rights which protects them from tarmac delays, hidden fees, that kind of thing. there's no such thing in the cruise industry. cruise lines have spent years lobbying in washington making sure maritime laws are in their favor. in the bahamas or liberia, they're not subject to the same safety regulations. plus, suzanne, a lot of cruise ship contracts list doctors and nurses as independent contractors. if you sustain an injury on a ship caused by an incompetent doctor you have no right to sue the cruise line whatsoever. >> most of those folks are plain out of luck, yes? >> plain out of luck, it does
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that he did not mean to do it. the olympic athlete was so upset at his bail hearing today, he broke down every time somebody mentioned her name, reeva steenkamp's name. the judge gruupgraded the charg against him to premeditated murder. we are hearing pistorius's version of what happened that tragic night in his own words. his lawyer read the affidavit in court. here's, in part, what he said. i woke up to close the sliding door and heard a noise in the bathroom. was scared and didn't switch on the light. i got my gun and moved towards the bathroom. i screamed at the intruder because i did not have my legs on, i felt vulnerable. i fired shots through the bathroom door and told reeva to call police. i walked back to the bed and realized reeva was not in bed. then it dawned on me, it could be her in there. >> while the pistorius hearing was under way in pretoria, reeva
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steenkamp was mourned during a private funeral in her hometown of port elizabeth. her family says her loss is very hard to even imagine. i understand that you have reaction from the family. >> reporter: exactly, suzanne. as you can imagine, it was an extremely difficult and emotional day for friends and family of reeva steenkamp. they met in the morning and held a private service and her body was cremated. a few family members came out to speak to the media. her ankle, mike steenkamp looked strong when he approached the media. he started to thank south africans for the support, saying that they've received support from all corners of the globe. when he started to speak about reeva steenkamp, he broke down. let's take a look. >> we are here today as a family.
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there's only one thing missing, it's reeva. we've got to get -- i don't think i'll ever get over it with the lord's prayers. the statement she today for, abuse against women. >> reporter: a lot of people at that ceremony just finding it extremely difficult to understand that this woman they loved so much, that some described as an angel had to die in such a brutal manner, suzen. >> obviously they are mourning. do they have feelings about pistorius himself, or not they believe his story? >> reporter: you know, reeva steenkamp's father spoke to a reporter from the uk.
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he says that all he wants are answers. he wants to understand what led to the death of his daughter who he's described as somebody who was kind and loving. everybody wanting to know exactly what happened. state prosecutors making it clear today in court they don't buy pistorius's story. >> nkepile mabuse, thank you. appreciate it. eight armed masked robbers dressed as police officers drove two cars on to a tarmac at the brussels airport, then they stole the diamonds from a cargo hold on a plane. airport officials say they pulled the whole thing off in just three minutes. the gems were en route from the antwerp world diamond center to
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chad myers is joining us as well as alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. describe for us asteroid goes through the earth's atmosphere as a meteor, breaks up, becomes meteorites. >> they're finding pieces. we don't know yet, they haven't been analyzed, we don't know if this is a common stony asteroid that turns meteor that turns meteorite or could it be something much more expensive? if this happened to be a piece of mars or the moon that flew off when another meteor hit and these collisions in space send other pieces of planets flying away, it could be worth 40 times the value of a piece of gold. >> are they hard to find. >> they are. >> why so? >> there's snow there. it melted the top layer of snow and they kind of sunk into the snow a little bit. they are hard to find across the world. we don't believe this is going
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to be an iron meteor. it's hard to find with a metal detector. >> could you find it on beach? >> we think of meteors as big hunks of metal that fly and make craters. we do not believe this was an iron core meteor. only 10% of those metal ones, iron ones, hit the ground. the rest is all this type. >> how big are these pieces that we're talking about? >> so far about the size of a thumbnail. that's it so far. >> they're buried in the snow somewhere? >> yes. there was a hole in a lake and they were looking around saying, this is a great big hole. they think probably there were people ice fishing. >> that's a shame. i bet you there will be a lost people out there. i'm going to bring in alison.
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i'd be out there searching for them. they're worth a lot of money, yeah? >> there was alleged, i say alleged piece of the meteor. we're not sure if it exactly is. there was one piece sold on ebay for over $4,000. the seller had no idea what the rock was worth. how do you determine the price of a meteorite? we asked paul harris. he's of the meteorite exchange. here's what he told us. there are a few factors in determining the price. supply. the total amount of meteorite that's recovered. also, the size and weight of each individual sample. that matters, too. the bigger the sample, the more it's worth. the composition of the rock, that's important, too. 90% of meteors that have ever fallen to earth are one type of rock. if this one turns out to be the value would go up because it's unique. the historical significance plays a role in this.
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the impact did a lot of damage. this has become a big story. that could increase the value. >> chad, would you get out there and start looking? >> absolutely. i have a metal detector in my trunk for when i go up to north georgia looking for gold nuggets. >> you're ready? >> yes, you bet, i'd go any time. >> chad, alison, thank you very much. the dow hits a new high within the day, looking at more than 14,000 points there. different from a closing record number, however, but still the dow a little more than 100 points away from its record-closing high. it hit back in october of 2007. and of course, alison kosik, another big story, google, the company's share price hitting a big milestone, yes? >> we're not only watching the dow at 14,000 level, we're watching google crossing its own milestone, $800 a share for the first time.
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right now it's at $802. up over 30% over the past year. did you know $10.7 billion of its profit in 2012, that's what it made on over $50 billion in sales? all right. everybody wants to know how is this possible? why is google going over $800? today. first of all, there are rumors flying around about google possibly opening up retail stores. that would be a direct challenge to apple. they may sell google phones, gadgets and gizmos, chrome bucks. this is just a rumor. one exec said there were no plans for a retail store. even without the retail store, analysts see lots of room for further growth for google. you look at google, it's already got its hands in so many things. it gets 87% of total revenue from advertising in many, many forms. on all its other products, google maps, youtube, google chrome, it goes on an on, the
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list. google sells custom versions of its products like gmail and google docs. you can't forget the android operating system. 500 million devices worldwide. that dominates the iphone market. it has less than a quarter the number of users as facebook but it's growing. you see the strength not just in the mark the place b-- marketpl wiltz stock. >> you probably heard it a thousand times by now, in the last couple of months we're headed towards $1.2 trillion of forced spending cuts within the next ten years starting march 1st. this was president obama earlier today addressing this. >> just ten days from now, congress might allow a series of automatic severe budget cuts to take place that will do the exact opposite. won't help the economy. won't create jobs.
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will visit hardship on a whole lot of people. >> so how would it affect your life? ali velshi, christine romans here with this week's "how to speak money." >> it's almost upon us, a stupid name for a stupid thing. >> oh, my gosh, you've been say that for months now. >> i know. >> the sequester, a terrible word, never supposed to happen. the sequester is almost like the or else. congress and the president were supposed to figure out how to cut the deficits or else they'd have the sequester, forced spending cuts. >> here we are, a month and a half past the original deadline and still no deal to avoid it. you've heard the big numbers. $1.2 trillion in cuts over ten years. 85 billion this year, 13% cuts to defense, 9% to everything else. our colleagues here at cnn money came up with some of the specifics of what this thing, these forced budget cuts will feel like. >> there are quite frankly
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dozens of ways you'd feel it. look at education first. more than 14,000 teacher and staff members facing layoff. 70,000 students would no longer have a spot in head start. criminal justice, border patrol, anything that has to do with law enforcement on the federal level, big cuts. national parks. >> that's actually something that matters to a lot of people. you want to go for eye springtime hike, you better call ahead to see if the sequester affects reduces hours and services at these parks. and most annoying, travel, longer lines, longer wait times, slower security checks at airport. >> medicare and social security, largely untouched. safety net programs like medicaid and food stamps, also exempt, military personnel and veterans affairs. everyone will feel is one way or another. we will not call it the sea que seaquester.
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the forced budget cuts will affect you. a woman gives birth to two sets of identical twins. a woman in houston just welcomed two sets of identical twin boys. our own dr. sanjay gupta to explain how that happens, up next. >> fascinating stuff. at a dry cleaner, we replaced people with a machine. what? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it? hello? hello?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello? ally bank. your money needs an ally.
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texas woman has given birth to not just one set of twins but two. these four little boys were born on valentine's day. >> the names of the baby we just decided it would be easier for the family to keep up with the order they were born. we decided to stay with the "a," "b," "c," "d" theme. our 2-year-old is memphis. let's get a vegas theme going
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on. we decided to go with ace, blaine, cash and dillon. >> that's one way to keep up with all of them. a theme or something. how did this happen? how rare is this? >> this is rare. it's happened before. but this is very rare. keep in mind, she's 36 years old. he's 43 years old. as you get older, just having a baby at all becomes increasingly more challenging. >> sure. >> in this country about 10,000 babies born every day. interesting tidbit for you. 2% of them are identical twins. 200 sets of identical twins born every day. to have two sets of identical twins, they say about 1 in 70 million. when you have numbers that small it's hard to predict. women under a certain age who get ivf. >> fertility treatments. >> in vitro fertilization, you can see the numbers there, 30.8% have twins using their own eggs, 1.2% have triplets.
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they did it naturally. they said no ivf. >> they couldn't have planned it any better. >> it's pretty incredible. >> how are these kids going to do? they're very small. they're all premature. >> between 2 pounds 15 ounces to 3 pounds 15 ounces. it's a legitimate concern for any child born that prematurely. hemorrhages, small ones in the brain, lung development. that's why they stay in the neonatal icu. the mom, while she was pregnant had significant health concerns as well, diabetes, hypertension. it looks like she's gotten through that well did you see her. >> isn't that amazing. >> it's hard to believe just four days ago she had four babies. >> when did they find out she was having two sets of twins. >> on an ultrasound. they thought it was two babies and then they heard a third
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heartbeat at some point along the way. was a surprise. it wasn't on the first ultrasounds. >> i'm a twin as well. i was a total surprise. back in the day they had no idea, my mom had no idea she was having twins. my sister was born first. the doctor turned to her and said you did so well, we'll try for another. my dad started crying, tears of joys, i hope. and then six minutes later i was born. >> there are two eggs that are fertilized. if nothing more had happened for this particular story they would have been fraternal twins but those eggs then split. you have two sets of identical twins, separate amniotic sacks, separate placenta and a separate set of twins over here. it's an amazing thing, the human body. >> strangely enough, there's debate whether or not i'm fraternal or identical. because the doctor says fraternal. my mom to this day says
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identical. >> you can get tested. >> i've seen your sister. you look very much alike. >> thank you, sanjay. this is a great story. fascinating. >> happy, i think. >> yes. >> 1 in 70 million. that's pretty awesome. they beat the odds. it only makes sense all their kids are named cash and everything else from the casino. >> i love that. >> all right. thanks again, sanjay. michael jackson's son making his entertainment debut. he has a new gig coming up. ha ha ha! no no no! not today! ha ha ha! ha ha ha! jimmy how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? happier than dikembe mutumbo blocking a shot. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more.
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michael jackson's oldest son prince has a new gig in tv. he's taken a job as a reporter on "entertainment tonight." prince michael jackson has already taped his first interview, all about the remake of "the wizard of oz." he's all grown up. his lawyer says prince is determined to make his own money and eventually wants to become an actor. music exec clive davis discovered whitney houston among other top grapes. now in his memoir, "the sound track of my life," davis now 80 years old opens up about his career as well as his personal life. >> for over 50 years i never had sex with a male. i wasn't repressed. i had good sexual relationships with women. >> had you thought about men?
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>> never. for me this very be lined, misunderstood subject of bisexuality came up. >> it's been said that people are either gay, straight or lying. >> correct. i'm not lying. and it exists. >> when pressed about who he had relationships with, he said it's their privacy he's detecting. you could be hearing unreleased songs by tupac shakur because his mom is working with a company to manage his estate. she says he has many incomplete work that she would like to make available to folks everywhere. tupac has had many number one hits. the document "searching for sugarland" is getting a lot of buzz. how an iphone saved the film. io, and just making her comfortable.
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we usually think of using iphone video cameras to shoot home videos, capture family memories, that kind of thing, but these cameras are capable of a lot more. the movie "searching for shug gan man" partially shot on an iphone now up for an academy award. >> if ever this is an air of intrigue and mystery about a pop artist, it's around a man known
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as rodriguez. >> reporter: one of the hottest documentaries of the year, racking up awards worldwide. now in the running for an academy award. the director admits -- >> cool times. so far, so good. >> reporter: the film tells the unusual story of rodriguez, a singer from detroit who never gained fame in america but became somehow a legend in south africa. >> i was like, wow. this is the best story i ever heard in my life. >> reporter: the story behind the movie? pretty remarkable, too. it was shot partly on an iphone. he told us that was a matter of necessity. >> i started shooting this film with a super eight camera, real film. pretty expensive stuff. i completely ran out of money. i needed just very few shots left, but i needed those shots. and one day i realized that there was $1.00 app on my iphone. i tried it. it looked basically the same. then theil

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